Re: [hylafax-users] Testing

[Lee Howard <faxguy@howardsilvan.com>]

On 2002.11.28 09:03 Michael T. Babcock wrote:

> Speaking of testing, is anyone on the list interested in perhaps
> forming
> a test group of people willing to (upon request) send/receive test
> faxes
> for the sake of modem / software testing?
> 
> I have lots of customers to test against but unfortunately, most get
> pretty upset after using 5/10 pages on their fax machines and none of
> them want to send test faxes on request.

You can easily set up your own test environment by having two modems in 
the same system configured for HylaFAX with a phone cable run directly 
between them (no telco).  The "sending" modem needs to have 
"ModemDialCmd:   ATD" in its config.

Then you do something like 'sendfax -h sending_modem@ -d 1' and after 
it picks up the line you do 'faxanswer receiving_modem'.

This way you can send as many pages as you like to yourself without 
incurring tolls or wasting paper.  Obviously it's a bit easier to do 
when the sending modem is external and has LEDs to know when the modem 
goes off hook.

Lee.

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